Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 79:1 (2024) 33–82Overcoming Modernity, Exonerating Empire: Yoshimitsu Yoshihiko and the Ironies of Early Shōwa CatholicismChristopher T. Lough
MN 78:2 (2023) 189–221Traces of Truth: Chūgan Engetsu’s KonhōronBrendan Arkell Morley
MN 76:2 (2021) 329–61The Small Vehicle: The Construction of Hinayana and Japan’s Modern BuddhismStephan Kigensan Licha
MN 76:1 (2021) 1–68The Tragedy of Quabacondono: An Elizabethan Account of the Last Days of Toyotomi HidetsugiLiam Matthew Brockey and Jurgis Saulius Algirdas Elisonas- MN 76:1 (2021) 117–62A Pernicious Gang: Ōshio Chūsai and the Prosecution of Heretics in Late Tokugawa JapanJames McMullen
MN 74:1 (2019) 59–84The Poetics of Nativism: Motoori Norinaga and the Sacralization of Japanese LiteratureEmi Foulk Bushelle
MN 73:2 (2018) 213–44Female Shrine Priests and Doctrinal Instructors in the Early Meiji Moral Edification CampaignMichael Burtscher and Mika Odaira
MN 71:2 (2016) 263–93Mothers of the Buddhas: The Sutra on Transforming Women into Buddhas (Bussetsu Tennyo Jōbutsu Kyō) Heather Blair
MN 70:2 (2015) 237–83104 Voices from Christian Nagasaki: Document of the Rosario Brotherhood of Nagasaki with the Signatures of Its Members (February 1622) : An Analysis and TranslationReinier H. Hesselink- MN 70:2 (2015) 267–83Document of the Rosario Brotherhood of Nagasaki with the Signatures of Its MembersReinier H. Hesselink, Translated by Reinier H. Hesselink
MN 69:2 (2014) 153–219Localizing Strategies: Eison and the Shōtoku Taishi CultDavid Quinter- MN 69:2 (2014) 199–219Prince Shōtoku Ceremonial: Eison’s Shōtoku Taishi kōshikiEison, Translated by David Quinter
MN 68:2 (2013) 233–80Kanokogi Kazunobu: Pioneer of Platonic Fascism and Imperial Pan-AsianismChristopher W. A. Szpilman
MN 68:1 (2013) 79–88Of Allochthons and Alibis: Otherworldly Ideologies in Seventh- and Eighth-Century JapanDavid B. Lurie
MN 67:2 (2012) 239–62Conflating Monastic and Imperial Lineage: The Retired Emperors’ Period ReformulatedMikael Bauer- MN 67:2 (2012) 263–82The Dōshu: Clerics at Work in Early Medieval Japanese MonasteriesMikael S. Adolphson
MN 67:1 (2012) 133–57Cultural Nationalism in Japanese Neo-New Religions: A Comparative Study of Mahikari and Kōfuku no KagakuHotaka Tsukada and Gaynor Sekimori
MN 66:1 (2011) 1–47Zaō Gongen: From Mountain Icon to National TreasureHeather Blair- MN 66:1 (2011) 123–45“State Shinto” in Recent Japanese ScholarshipMichiaki Okuyama
MN 65:2 (2010) 245–96The Karmic Origins of the Great Bright Miwa Deity: A Transformation of the Sacred Mountain in Premodern JapanAnna Andreeva
MN 65:1 (2010) 149–95Confucianism, Christianity, and Heterodoxy in Tokugawa JapanJames McMullen
MN 64:2 (2009) 235–71Before the First Buddha: Medieval Japanese Cosmogony and the Quest for the Primeval KamiFabio Rambelli
MN 64:1 (2009) 53–82One Classic and Two Classical Traditions: The Recovery and Transmission of a Lost Edition of the AnalectsBenjamin A. Elman- MN 64:1 (2009) 83–125Clerical Demographics in the Edo-Meiji Transition: Shingon and Tōzanha Shugendō in Western SagamiBarbara Ambros
MN 63:2 (2008) 211–38Reflections on the Meaning of Our Country: Kamo no Mabuchi’s KokuikōPeter Flueckiger
MN 63:1 (2008) 1–50The Inflatable, Collapsible Kingdom of Retribution: A Primer on Japanese Hell Imagery and ImaginationCaroline Hirasawa- MN 63:1 (2008) 51–99Whose Fuji?: Religion, Region, and State in the Fight for a National SymbolAndrew Bernstein
MN 62:4 (2007) 437–79Creating Bodhisattvas: Eison, Hinin, and the “Living Mañjuśrī”David Quinter
MN 62:3 (2007) 299–321Shaka no Honji: Preaching, Intertextuality, and Popular HagiographyHank Glassman
MN 62:1 (2007) 1–74A History of Dōmyōji to 1572 (or Maybe 1575): An Attempted ReconstructionRobert Borgen
MN 61:4 (2006) 437–57Fujiwara Seika and the Great LearningRichard Bowring
MN 61:3 (2006) 339–74The Hōryūji Treasures and Early Meiji Cultural PolicyHiroko T. McDermott- MN 61:3 (2006) 375–406The War Over the Kyoto SchoolJohn C. Maraldo
MN 61:2 (2006) 227–42Kokugaku vs. NativismMark Teeuwen
MN 60:3 (2005) 339–91Female Pilgrims and Mt. Fuji: Changing Perspectives on the Exclusion of WomenFumiko Miyazaki
MN 60:2 (2005) 195–234Desire and Disgust: Meditations on the Impure Body in Medieval Japanese NarrativesRajyashree Pandey
MN 59:4 (2004) 493–524Edo-Period Tales of the Healing Jizō Bodhisattva: A Translation of “Enmei Jizōson Inkō Riyakuki”Duncan Ryūken Williams- MN 59:4 (2004) 525–533Paradigm Regained: Taking Syncretism SeriouslyD. Max Moerman
MN 59:2 (2004) 223–44Medieval Experience, Modern Visions: Women in BuddhismRajyashree Pandey
MN 59:1 (2004) 35–82Living Icons: “Reizō” Myths of the Saikoku Kannon PilgrimageMark MacWilliams
MN 57:3 (2002) 271–307Secret Buddhas: The Limits of Buddhist RepresentationFabio Rambelli- MN 57:3 (2002) 339–48“A” RevisitedRichard A. Gardner
- MN 57:3 (2002) 349–58The Ambiguous Legacy of Modern Japanese PhilosophyJohn C. Maraldo
MN 57:2 (2002) 207–27Shugendō: The State of the FieldGaynor Sekimori
MN 56:3 (2001) 397–403Considering the Alchemy of RelicsMimi Hall Yiengpruksawan
MN 55:3 (2000) 327–68Shadows of Transgression: Heian and Kamakura Constructions of ProstitutionJanet R. Goodwin- MN 55:3 (2000) 429–39Nativism RestoredJohn Breen
MN 54:4 (1999) 509–520Itō Jinsai and the Meanings of WordsI. J. McMullen